How Google Destroyed the Internet

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Stop the presses! The internet isn’t very good anymore. Shock! Horror! It isn’t exactly news here , nor in the thousands of other places on the internet you’ll find articles and queries centered around ‘Why is Google so much worse now than it used to be?’

Similar to how the arguments around nominally ‘progressive’ political parties like Labour in the UK or the Democrats in the US focussing on their apparent ‘uselessness’ are misguided, so too does seeing the state of Google now as ‘sub-optimal’ is kind of missing the point: They’re all working as intended.

For Google, once you stop seeing it as a search engine and instead reframe it as what it is, and what most tech giants boil down to—a

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